Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1911 — The Correspondent’s Tree Sphere. [ARTICLE]

The Correspondent’s Tree Sphere.

It is said that he who causes two blades of grass to grow where one bad grown before, is a great benefactor. How true it can be said he who, by suggestion, causes two enobling ideas to dwell in hearts where one or none had dwelt before, is a benefactor whose influence goes on down through the ages. How much better to use the pen for the good of a community, cementing human interests, than to spitefully use one’s time in work which only rebounds to the writer’s own hearthstone. Rostand’s Chantecleer thought his crowing caused the sun to rise. Some correspondents imagine they are quite essential in affairs, when, if Instead, they sought to truthfully depict the real thoughts of the community, they might be of some value, and like Chantecleer, lose their selfconceit when the pheasant hen (the common people) tells them they are not necessary to make the world go round. HELEN MAR. 1 Try a dozen of those seedless, navel oranges for 16c a John Eger’s.